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PRIEST UPHELD IN SUIT.; $1,000 to Rev. J. Stephanko for Remarks About His Beard.

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June 09, 1916,

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PASSAIC, N.J., June 8. -- About three years ago the Rev. Joseph Stephanko, an American-born Russian priest, came to this city to assume the rectorship of SS. Peter and Paul's Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, in Third Street. He had not been here long before he shaved off his long beard.

June 09, 1916

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